MOVING BEES 
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trance or thru narrow %-inch slots be¬ 
tween the covers and hives. 
When hives of bees are loaded on to a 
wagon or truck they should be placed in 
such a way that ventilation thru the top 
screen will not be shut off. In the case of 
an ordinary hayrack the hives may be 
spread out over a large surface in the 
bottom of the wagon and over the rack. 
In this way it will not be necessary to pile 
one hive on top of another. 
SACKING BEES. 
Where hives are old and full of cracks, 
putting screens on top and at the entrance 
would do little g v ood. In such cases, one 
can use second-hand burlap sacks of a size 
large enough to take in a whole hive. One 
of these can be slipped over a hive and tied, 
in much less time than it takes to put on 
screens. The mode of procedure is shown 
step by step in the accompaning engraving. 
Where one can secure a quantity of large 
burlap sacks without holes in the sides this 
method of shutting in bees can be used on 
good hives as well as old ones. The same 
sacks, of course, can be used over and over 
again. The author has helped move bees 
in sacks over rough roads without a single 
bee escaping. There is no danger o.f the 
bees suffocating, because they can crawl 
into the sack. 
LOADING AN AUTO TRUCK. 
When using an automobile truck, where 
hives have to be piled on top of each other, 
an open framework of 2 x 4’s should be 
placed between the several tiers of hives. 
Without some scheme of keeping the 
hives apart, the bees in all except the top 
tier of hives would smother. 
The most satisfactory entrance-closer is 
a piece of wire cloth, the length of which 
is the inside width of the hive, and bent 
in the form shown in cut on next page. 
This is easily placed in the entrance of 
the hive by tacking the upper right-angled 
piece against the upper part of the en¬ 
trance. 
The main feature of this is that it holds 
its place without any tacks, altho one or 
two are needed to prevent its jolting loose 
when on the automobile truck or wagon. 
Moreover, the angle that projects into the 
Above is shown stage by stage a method of sack¬ 
ing bees for moving. The exact mode of proced¬ 
ure is shown in the order of the pictures, reading 
from above down. Where the hives are old, espe¬ 
cially if they are full of cracks, or the cover does 
not fit tightly, this plan of moving bees is ideal. 
Even if the hives are good, it is probably cheaper 
than the entrance-closer and a hive screen over the 
top. To sack a colony is a matter of seconds only. 
